[Athen] Quick and dirty convert Bookshare to ePub tool/process?

[Deborah Armstrong via athen-list]

The only time you don't see epub is when the bookshare book came from a volunteer who scanned it and then all bets are off.  Or of course, if it is one of their new human narrated audio books.
But George is right; what bookshare receives is epub from publishers.
If it's all messed up that could be due to the fault of bookshare's automatic conversion process for Daisy. I've seen this happen before; I have a quality epub but the bookshare version is crummy.
A sighted student, especially with a highly visual book is often better off using the publisher's online platform if it has a built-in read out loud button. Those usually just read the current page, so at the same time they are viewing the image, the computer is reading the text.

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Subject: Re: [Athen] Quick and dirty convert Bookshare to ePub tool/process?

Hello,

You should start with the EPUB. That is the format publishers provide. The other formats are derived from that.

If you have WordToEPUB installed, you should have a context menu item to go from EPUB to Word. WordToEPUB also has the option to export HTML.

Best
George


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Subject: [Athen] Quick and dirty convert Bookshare to ePub tool/process?

I should know this but I've reached my frustration limit with publishers and Bookshare at the moment...

Who has a step by step process for turning rotten Bookshare Daisy files into ePubs so I can then extract text and do what I want with it?

The directions I'm finding online are wholly unhelpful and appear to be leaving out steps, and I'm lost.

Help!

Susan Kelmer
Alternate Format Production Program Manager
Disability Services
Division of Student Life
T 303 735 4836
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